RELATIONAL MEDIATION
EVENT SUMMARY
Relational Mediation is two-day, intensive course providing the skills for practitioners working with individuals at the beginning of the mediation process. The workshop, through the use of actors, will provide a strong practical focus on the subtle and delicate skills required to bring about a series of transformative shifts in parents, helping them to gain a broader perspective on why they are in conflict, what effect this has had on their children and how they might manage their parental alliance in the future.
Speaker - Bill Hewlett
Bill has worked for 17 years as a child consultant and a mediator and managed and supervised the clinical practice of mediators across six Family Relationship Centres and was the lead trainer for the Australian Institute for Relationships Studies in Sydney, Australia. This work has led Bill to develop an innovative and effective model of practice, which responds to the current challenges of the family law system when working with parents who struggle to come to amicable arrangements with each other.
Bill has published articles on family dispute resolution and is frequently invited to present at conferences and events locally and internationally.
Who is this course for / Who should attend?
This course is applicable for family lawyers, mediators, counsellors, child consultants and family therapists. This course is applicable to anyone who works with families or individuals who are struggling to thrive in intact families or post separation.
Key learning objectives
Key learning points
To gain an accessible and applicable working knowledge of attachment theory, neurobiology and trauma theory.
How to help the parent to have ‘flashes of insight’ into how they are contributing to their conflict with the other parent
How to deeply engage with a parent without endangering impartiality and neutrality
To re-humanise the ‘other’ parent and to encourage empathy.
Narrative therapy skills to ‘shift the blame’ away from the people and onto the problem (the relationship).
By the end of the course you will be able to
Assist families entrenched in high conflict to reduce blame and recrimination and to reach mutually satisfactory agreements.
Stimulate a greater reflective capacity in clients.
Assist parents to increase their empathy for and to be more mindful of their children.
TYPICAL TIMINGS
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Day One |
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Day Two |
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09.00 - 09.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
09.00 - 09.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
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09.30 - 11.00 |
First Session |
09.30 - 11.00 |
First Session |
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11.00 - 11.15 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
11.00 - 11.15 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
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11.15 - 12.45 |
Second Session |
11.15 - 12.45 |
Second Session |
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12.45 - 13.45 |
Lunch |
12.45 - 13.45 |
Lunch |
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13.45 - 15.15 |
Third Session |
13.45 - 15.15 |
Third Session |
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15.15 - 15.30 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
15.15 - 15.30 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
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15.15 - 15.30 |
Final Session |
15.30 - 17.00 |
Final Session |
CPD Certificates
A CPD certificate will be provided at the end of the course. As a full day course this will be for 14 CPD points.
Standard Delegate Rates
When being run as a public course this 1 day event will typically have a delegate rate of £250.00 + VAT
Discounts are also available for bookings of 3 delegates or more. For further information please contact help@flipfaculty.org
In addition this course can be run as an in-house training session. Prices will depend on location and numbers of delegates attending. For a detailed proposal please contact us at help@flipfaculty.org